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...Learfield operates in the middle of the business of college sports as they become an increasing important source of revenue for campuses....
...Even though many of these organisations “officially” frown upon doing business there, they’ve become a dealmaking hub....
...Within a couple of months, both were doing brisk trades; the bar regularly had a queue out the door....
...City veteran Gerry Grimstone, who stepped down as the UK’s investment minister last year, has joined Bain & Co as an adviser on a project advising Saudi Arabia’s investment ministry....
...He then moved to Wall Street, doing stints at Merrill Lynch and Morgan Stanley as a bond trader and then working closely with Bob Diamond, later Barclays chief executive, while both were at Credit Suisse...
...“They’re in the business of ideally doing multiple deals with your portfolio companies. They know that if they act poorly, my job is to not show them future business.”...
...As Rowan said on Monday: “No one has done what we are doing. No one’s model looks like our model. Yes, there are elements of SunAmerica....
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...Some had started doing it as a joke while others were taking it very seriously....
...But in assessing whether it has led to a change in attitudes and behaviour across business sectors such as property, advertising and investment banking, the FT has received some defiant feedback....
...Caledonia Investments has hired Tim Livett as its chief financial officer. Livett joins from the Wellcome Trust, where he has been CFO since 2014....
...These firms see and sell themselves as much more than PR agents. They are in the “strategic advice” business, almost on the same footing as the investment banker or management consultant....
...The club had a rocky start under his ownership, falling out of the Premiership as coaches and executives bickered over the use of statistics to measure players....
...As Minton points out, not only are millennials more likely to buy gym memberships, they’re driving the boutique business as well....
...When he started in the 1980s, the City was a fantastic gentlemen’s club. “Now it’s like being a battery chicken,” he sighs. Farage, in contrast, is a free-range bull....
...He also owns 13 per cent of the Manchester City Football Club....
...Lending Club....
...Newman’s seminal 1975 study of Canada’s cozy business aristocracy, The Canadian Establishment, the tradesman’s son decided that he had to join the country’s most inbred club....
...As he put it, “A further complication is introduced by the inappropriateness of fixed money loans to finance investment in training. Such investment necessarily involves much risk....
...In 2012, Forbes ranked the Devils as the 19th most valuable NHL franchise at $205m, but also the most indebted at a 112 per cent debt to value ratio....
...Given the opportunity cost of what an accomplished person could be doing with their time, and given the risk you carry as a non-executive, why do it?”...
...A far cry from the London gentlemen’s clubs of old, whose members were faithful for life, today’s club scene is a rather more fashionable affair....
...The Garden Centre Group, previously known as Wyevale, operates under brands such as Blooms, Country Homes and Gardens, Bridgemere, Jack’s Patch and Old Barn, and had been on the market since last year....
...KKR’s diversification into the capital markets business is also gaining traction as banks, hampered by regulatory requirements and the uncertain economic outlook, increasingly curb their lending....
...Although modern-day mobile phones are smaller than Gekko’s brick-like late-1980s contraption, visitors to old-school haunts such as the 21 Club in midtown Manhattan can still bump into crinkly gentlemen...
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